OPEN ACCESS
| Sl. No. | Open Sources | Purpose | URL | Total Sources Available |
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| 1 | BioMed Central | A pioneer of open access publishing, BMC has an evolving portfolio of high quality peer-reviewed journals | https://www.biomedcentral.com/ | 300 peer-reviewed journals |
| 2 | DOAB Directory of Open Access Books | The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB | https://doabooks.org/ | 10218 Academic peer-reviewed books and chapters from 246 publishers |
| 3 | DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals | DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. | https://doaj.org/ | 10,616 Journals, 2,757,712 Articles |
| 4 | OpenDOAR | OpenDOAR provides a quality-assured listing of open access repositories around the world. OpenDOAR staff harvest and assign metadata to allow categorisation and analysis to assist the wider use and exploitation of repositories. | https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/opendoar/ | over 2600 Listings |
| 5 | InTech Open Science | InTechOpen is the world's largest Science, Technology and Medicine Open Access book publisher. With a goal to provide free online access to research since 2004, InTechOpen has published3,251 books and 48,631 scientific works total by105,826 international scientists. | https://www.intechopen.com/ | 3251-books 48631 scientific works |
| 6 | Internet Archive | The Internet Archive, a non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. | https://archive.org/ | 279 billion
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| 7 | NDLTD Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations | The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). | https://www.ndltd.org/ | 5,090,796 electronic theses and dissertations contained in the NDLTD archive Global Electronic Theses and Dissertations |
| 8 | NPTEL | NPTEL is an acronym for National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning which is an initiative by seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) for creating course contents in engineering and science. | https://nptel.ac.in/ | 420 web courses and 509 video courses developed and hosted, which can be accessed freely |
| 9 | OAPEN Open Access Publishing in European Networks | The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences. OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of open access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation | https://www.oapen.org/content/ | The total number of titles listed by the end of 2015 was 3776. |
| 10 | Open Access Library | Open Access Library (OALib) consists of database with metadata of Open Access (OA) papers. OALib is currently hosting links and metadata to more than 4,231,984 open access articles covering a wide range of academic disciplines. | https://www.oalib.com/ | 4,231,984 open access academic disciplines articles |
| 11 | OATD Open Access Theses and Dissertation | OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from
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"https://oatd.org/" | 4,166,703 Theses and Dissertations |
| 12 | Project Gutenberg | Offers over 54,000 free eBooks: Choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, especially older works for which copyright has expired. We digitized and diligently proofread them with the help of thousands of volunteers. | https://www.gutenberg.org/ | 54,000 free eBooks: |
| 13 | PubMed Central | The National Center for Biotechnology Information advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information. | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ | 4.6 MILLION Articles are archived in PMC. 2027 Full Participation Journals 329 NIH Portfolio Journals 4464 Selective Deposit Journals |
| 14 | Rare Book Room | The "Rare Book Room" site has been constructed as an educational site intended to allow the visitor to examine and read some of the great books of the world. Over the last decade, a company called "Octavo" digitally photographed some of the world’s great books from some of the greatest libraries. The books are presented so that the viewer can examine all the pages in medium to medium-high resolution. | http://www.rarebookroom.org/ | Rare Books in Electronic form |
| 15 | Vivekananda Library Online | Complete books and articles by the swami Vivekananda, brother monks and disciples | http://www.vivekananda.net/Library.html | works of vivekananda |
| 16 | World Bank Open Knowledge Repository | The World Bank is the largest single source of development knowledge. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products. The Open Access Policy and the OKR represent the third major development in the World Bank’s Open Development Agenda, joining these earlier initiatives. |
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/ | books, journals, technical papers, country strategy documents, economic and sector work, working papers, knowledge notes, |
| 17 | Free Medical Journals | Over the next years, the most important medical journals will be available online, free and in full-text. The unrestricted access to scientific knowledge - the new standard in medical publishing - will have a major impact on medical practice. | https://www.freemedicaljournals.com/ | 5088 journals |
| 18 | Free Medical Books | Over the next years, many textbooks will be available online, free and in full-text. The unrestricted access to scientific knowledge will have a major impact on medical practice. | https://m.freebooks4doctors.com/ | 100 Internet books |
| 19 | Open Learn Courses | OpenLearn aims to break the barriers to education by reaching millions of learners around the world, providing free educational resources and inviting all to sample courses that our registered students take – for free. There are nearly 1000 courses on OpenLearn, all of which are currently free to study. | https://www.open.edu/openlearn/ | There are nearly 1000 courses on OpenLearn, all of which are currently free to study. |
| 20 | Indian Academy of Science | Publication of scientific journals has been a major activity of the Academy since its formation in 1934 and the Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences Parts A and B began publication that very year. The Academy today publishes 10 journals, several of which grew out of the original Proceedings. | https://www.ias.ac.in/ | The Academy today publishes 10 journals |
| 21 | MedInd | Provide Online access to full-text of Indian biomedical periodicals to the users in within and outside India. As such no such resource is available that provides full-text of major Indian biomedical periodicals. | https://medind.nic.in/ | 122 Journals |
| 22 | Research4 Life | Research4Life is the collective name for the four programmes –
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https://www.research4life.org/ | Online access to up to 79,000 peer-reviewed international scientific journals, books, |
| 23 | WHO IRIS Institutional Repository for Information Sharing | WHO global digital library - online access to WHO published material | https://apps.who.int/iris/ | Current and Archived WHO reports from 1929-2017. |
| 24 | SpringerOpen | The SpringerOpen portfolio has grown tremendously since its launch in 2010, so that we now offer researchers from all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences a place to publish open access in journals and books. | https://www.springeropen.com/ | 200+ Open access journals across all areas of science |
| 25 | SocioSite Project | Internet is rapidly transforming the production, distribution, and consumption of knowledge and information. Information is made available in electronic formats and through differing network applications. | https://www.sociosite.net/ | |
| 26 | SSRN | SSRN is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks. | https://www.ssrn.com/en/ | 772,045 research papers from 359,593 researchers across 30 disciplines. |
| 27 | ROAD | ROAD, the Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources, is a service offered by the ISSN International Centre with the support of the Communication and Information Sector of UNESCO. Launched as a beta version on 16th December 2013, ROAD has been developed during 2014 ROAD provides a free access to a subset of the ISSN Register | https://road.issn.org/ | |
| 28 | LOADB Listing of Open Access Databases | A large number of Government agencies, research institutions and academic institutions across the world create databases in various fields of science and technology. | https://www.loadb.org/Control.do?_idx | 1300+ open access databases |
| 29 | eEmployment News | Employment News is the flagship weekly job journal of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. It was launched in 1976 with a view to provide information on employment opportunities to the unemployed and under employed youth of the country. The job journal is published in English, Hindi (Rozgar Samachar) and Urdu (Rozgar Samachar) and has a circulation of nearly 3 lakhs per week. The job journal is providing information related to job vacancies, job oriented training programmes, admission notices related to job oriented exams and results of recruitment exams in all ministries. | https://www.employmentnews.gov.in/NewEmp/Home.aspx | Online Indian Government Employment News |
| 30 | Shodhganga | Shodhganga is Indian Ph.D e-Theses Repository developed by INFLIBNET. It was launched in 1976 with a view to provide information on employment opportunities to the unemployed and under employed youth of the country. The job journal is published in English, Hindi (Rozgar Samachar) and Urdu (Rozgar Samachar) and has a circulation of nearly 3 lakhs per week. The job journal is providing information related to job vacancies, job oriented training programmes, admission notices related to job oriented exams and results of recruitment exams in all ministries. | https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/ | 552436 Indian ETDS Included |
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